Patterns of richness and endemism of the Mexican herpetofauna, a matter of spatial scale?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 305-316

  Ochoa Ochoa, Leticia M ^a   Campbell, Jonathan A ^b   Flores Villela, Oscar A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Biogeography; Endemism patterns; Geographically weighted regression; Latitudinal gradient; Mexico; Reptiles; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENDEMISM; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; NICHE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; REPTILE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 84892497668     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12201     Document Type: Article

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